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Only using it in very remote areas that literally have no other communications available is exactly the point of the T-Mobile/Starlink service. Obviously they're not trying to outperform terrestrial cellular networks with satellite comms. So mostly the same use-case as the Apple/Globalstar service.

Except from the sounds of it the Apple service actually is something like 1bps, since they stated in the video it can take "only" 15 seconds to send one message. (assuming an emergency SOS message size of 15 bytes when compressed)




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